Congratulations to Christopher Fan, whose book ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965: TRANSNATIONAL FANTASIES OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY was shortlisted for the Biennial Book Prize from MELUS. tinyurl.com/4nkhu8sh @chrisfan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Excellent piece by @sulliview.bsky.social in @theguardian.com. Grateful that she references our recent @rooseveltinstitute.org report on the media crises facing US democracy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In 2025, press freedom came under direct attack. We must not respond to this existential crisis with silence and apathy. Read @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

"An important exploration of how Black women artists have used self-expression to counter misperceptions about them and their legacies...." -- Soyica Diggs Colbert Now available: THE SOUTHS IN HER, by Nicole M. Morris Johnson. bit.ly/4ptNurC @nimojo.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

“The art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion, couldn’t metabolize Palestine. It still can’t.” David Velasco @equatormag.bsky.social — www.equator.org/articles/how...

“We write from the perspective of 2025. But we also write as historians looking back at a lineage of educators and students who have resisted the incursions of technosolutionism, technocapitalism, and technofascism in higher education.”

All ERIS Gems available now from @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/series/eris-...

We are pleased to announce that Ying Qian's REVOLUTIONARY BECOMINGS will receive the Honorable Mention for the 2025 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies from the @modernlanguage.bsky.social. buff.ly/wxUxvI0

More details to come but… 🎉🎉 I just learned that my book has won the first ever Biennial Book Prize from MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States! I’m over the moon! 🎉🎉 cup.columbia.edu/book/writing...

A new report documents a hostile environment for US journalists this year, with 32 arrests and 170 assaults. Read Jem Bartholomew. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Now available! Considering the violence routinely inflicted on Black women alongside their artistic innovations, this book reveals a transmuted South that is rich in techniques for weaving liberatory works. buff.ly/isS9Wgo @nimojo.bsky.social #BlackStudies #AfricanaStudies #BlackModernity

In this episode of the Brian Lehrer Show, author Diane Ravitch discusses her new book AN EDUCATION and how she went from being an influential advocate for school choice and standardized testing to a promoter of public schools. buff.ly/YabVgIu #Education

Very nice to see THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY, by Edward Mendelson on @tonydomestico.bsky.social's list in @commonweal.bsky.social of best books of 2025. tinyurl.com/hdd6ma3c @columbiaup.bsky.social

In her Afterword to our new special issue, "The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia,” Rebecca Walkowitz writes about accepting the challenge of language, and rising to it. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/articles/wal...

Listen to an interview w/ Martin Moore and Thomas Colley on the New Books Network as they discuss their amazing new book, DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL NEWS. megaphone.link/NBNK3356661094 @martinjemoore.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

For all of your gag-gifting-meets-seriously-dumb-good-bad-great holiday reading needs, here’s a friendly reminder that The Most Unwanted Novel is the Christmas on Mars novel your loved ones have never been waiting for🎄 You can get it for 20% off with the code GIFTS below through the 31st:

Google's foray into news has fundamentally reshaped journalism. This book reveals a symbiotic yet adversarial relationship: Google amplified traditional media’s reach while undercutting its business model. By Qun Wang on @columbiaup.bsky.social buff.ly/6kH1rUH

"Just below the media and political fray, flagship research institutions are forging ahead with great determination." Why Flagships Are Winning, by Ian F. McNeely author of THE UNIVERSITY UNFETTERED: PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN AN AGE OF DISRUPTION tinyurl.com/5989zc3d @columbiaup.bsky.social

Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI. That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself. I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student). www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...

The teeny tiniest interview in PW to close out @hubcitypress.bsky.social 30th anniversary. In the newsletter today and in this week's print issue. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Fiercely Independent: A Roundtable Chat With Three Indie Booksellers. Excellent discussion on how indie bookstores reflect their communities, the pros and cons of author events, and more via @aliahanna.bsky.social's substack. open.substack.com/pub/aliahabi...

Congratulations to Jarvis McInnis on AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION, published in the Black Lives in the Diaspora series (tinyurl.com/3dy2yp8y), being named one of AAIHS's Best Black History Books of 2025! bit.ly/3MjxgmT @columbiaup.bsky.social

I've been dying to write this for a long time. I love crime fiction and detective fiction; it's how I prefer to relax. I reject the idea that it has to be conservative or reactionary, and Jacobin was kind enough to let me write this essay extolling why we can't surrender this terrain.

Carolina Abbott Galvão and @riddhisetty.bsky.social asked newsroom leaders, independent journalists, and international reporters how they see the media changing in the next 25 years. Their answers describe upheavals to come in both the business and practice of journalism. www.cjr.org/feature/visi...

Anya Schiffrin on the normalization of media capture, with @azmatzahra.bsky.social and Journalism 2050 hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. youtu.be/krcMZxnFtEY?...

"This is an elegant, expert, disciplined, and important book about the most urgent contemporary problem: the decay and disorder of information." Jean Seaton on DICTATING REALITY, by Martin Moore and Thomas Colley. bit.ly/3Xbzab9 @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Looking for the perfect gift for the Virginia Woolf reader in your life? Check out THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY, by Edward Mendelson, featured on this list of books by Columbia faculty. bit.ly/4rRSus9 @columbiaup.bsky.social

Thomas Colley, co-author of DICTATING REALITY: THE GLOBAL BATTLE TO CONTROL THE NEWS, on how Trump's White House site criticizing journalist mirrors techniques of other authoritarian leaders. bit.ly/4rQlErv @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

It was a joy to write this festival report on Il Cinema Ritrovato '25 in Bologna!! (Highlights include contortionist snake ladies 🐍 & smashing the patriarchy! 🔨) FREE to read via @ucpress.bsky.social in the sizzling new issue of @filmquarterly.bsky.social 🎞️🎊 !! online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...

Congratulations to Prof. Nicole Morris Johnson (nimojo.bsky.social), whose monograph 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘳: 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 will be published by @columbiaup.bsky.social in Jan 2026! cup.columbia.edu/book/the-sou...

Latest read. Hollywood’s Others: Love And Limitation In The Star System by Katherine Fusco. @fuscowrites.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

An excellent review of THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY in Frontline that praises Edward Mendelson for his original close reading of Virginia Woolf's novel. bit.ly/4pqssKN @columbiaup.bsky.social

In a war that pits tech giants against news publishers and the ad-tech that loves them, both sides see AI as a valuable weapon in what is likely to be a fight to the death. Read Lucy Schiller. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

Congratulations to Jarvis McInnis on AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION being named one of AAIHS's Best Black History Books of 2025! bit.ly/3MjxgmT @columbiaup.bsky.social

Had a lot of fun writing this review of @tomcomitta.bsky.social’s strange, moving, and hilarious book. Gets us to think, as I argue here, about the value of an aesthetic education—something we all should aim for as we teach our kids. mid-theory.com/2025/12/04/u...

Immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina highlight the importance of local news. Read @sarahstonbely.bsky.social of @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/i...

Listen to an insightful and very entertaining Recall This Book podcast w/ Peter Coviello, author of VINELAND REREAD and Ethan Warren, author of THE CINEMA OF PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON on *One Battle After Another* hosted at West Newton Cinema bit.ly/3Md248P @columbiaup.bsky.social #Rereadings

Congratulations to Laura Helton, whose book, SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS: HOW BLACK COLLECTORS CREATED ARCHIVES & REMADE HISTORY, published in Black Lives in the Diaspora series, was shortlisted for the 2024 MLA First Book Prize! bit.ly/44Tk91U @lehelton.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

For @mid-theory.bsky.social, @johndownesangus.bsky.social wrote about @tomcomitta.bsky.social’s awesome book at @columbiaup.bsky.social! It was so fun to edit this piece!

For MTC, John Downes-Angus reviews Tom Comitta's PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE and reflects on his experiences as a high school English teacher where on the daily he makes a case for reading the strange, the extreme, the unwanted—for the chance to accept "reading’s complicated gift to us."

Online at @nybooks.com, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Lucy Sante on the court artist of the New York School: Joe Brainard

Congratulations to Ying Qian, whose book, REVOLUTIONARY BECOMINGS: DOCUMENTARY MEDIA IN 20TH-CENTURY CHINA will receive Honorable Mention for the 2024 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies from the MLA! bit.ly/3MgUeuO @modernlanguage.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

An excellent interview w/ Diane Ravitch about her new book, AN EDUCATION: HOW I CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT SCHOOLS & ALMOST EVERYTHING ELSE on @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social youtu.be/mu3mjDo1yiw?... @columbiaup.bsky.social @wnyc.org

Once a champion of 'school choice,' Diane Ravitch is now a major promoter of public schools. Of her past positions, she writes, "I was wrong." We talked about her 180 and her new book 'An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else.' www.wnyc.org/story/a-scho...

Storytime: In 2023, Koritha Mitchell generously shared an article that reminded her of my work: Michelle Lanier’s gorgeous “Rooted.“ My breath was immediately swept away by an image that seemed to express all that I was trying to make clear in words. Thank you Allison Janae Hamilton! #TSIH

"We are keepers of canon and critique, of traditions and interventions, of discipline-specific discourses and a robust legacy of public engagement." Ragini Srinivasan, author of OVERDETERMINED, on the importance of literature teachers in an age of AI. bit.ly/4rBLgsa @columbiaup.bsky.social

Congratulations to Sunny Xiang, author of TONAL INTELLIGENCE, on receiving a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for her article, “Asian American Art During the First Intifada” bit.ly/4q5nqDN @columbiaup.bsky.social

You can buy a ton of sick books from @columbiaup.bsky.social at cup.columbia.edu/cyber-monday/

For this so-called "Cyber Monday," @columbiaup.bsky.social is offering all of its titles--including my own Cold War Modernists--at a 50% discount! At this price, you can't afford not to get yourself and everyone on your holiday shopping list a copy, can you? cup.columbia.edu/book/cold-wa...